Health advocacy. Evaluation of the Ethical Standards

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Evaluation of the Ethical Standards
The global population aging is an infamous issue. It is approximated that the world’s population will consist of about 2 billion persons aged 60 years or older. The increasing elderly population presently has a significant share in the global’s total population. Certain health indicators have informed this increased share – particularly reduced fertility and mortality, and increased longevity. As such, the “older” population is rising and so is the population considered elderly is growing older (McKie, J., Singer, P., & Richardson, J., 2016).
The parties engaged in the resource allocation, especially the manager and the physicians need to make an effective decision premised upon the scarcity of the resources. They also need to not that it is morally correct to proceed with some rationalization on resource allocation in such circumstances. In all aspects of health, resource allocation ought to meet two key ethical criteria. One, it ought to be cost-effective. A cost-effective allocation is when the scarce resources for health are awarded to ensure maximum health benefits for the population served. Cost-effective analysis of any given health intervention examines the cost of the intervention against the benefits to establish its relative efficiency in health production (McKie, J., Singer, P., & Richardson, J., 2016).
Generally, the costs of intervention are measured in financial terms, whereas the benefits are measured by considering health improvements or outcomes. When benefits divide costs, you end up with a cost-effective ratio for intervention. Assuming the current global population structure regarding ages, it can be assumed that the ethical standards for the allocation of resources for an aging population and end-of-life care is cost-effective. Ideally, the aging population is massively increasing. This is a reflection of effective health services for the elderly population. Even though health economists, primarily perform cost-effective analysis, it is also a “measure of one ethical criterion for the evaluation of health programs.” Cost-effective is not just an economic issue since “improving individuals’ health and well-being is a moral concern.” Therefore an allocation of resources which is cost ineffective offers fewer benefits. When evaluating actions and social policies, the amount of benefits produced for persons is, thus, an important matter of ethical consideration (Cohen, B. E., & Marshall, S. G., 2017).
Challenges Related to The Provision of Health Care
Demographic change is an important factor in the present times. As the global population grows, the healthcare systems in each nation, including the U.S face certain challenges to meet the health needs of the aging population. I...